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VisiCalc has, undoubtedly, the highest impact-to-complexity ratio in the history of software so far.


That projection won't last in a world where Brent Oil @ $100. That was only true while the petrodollars kept flowing.

It's also not representative for the whole industry. BMW is profitable with their electric cars, and 18% of their sales are fully electric.

Japan is just being the usual USA vassal. Since now China absolutely dominates EV and batteries, they rather align themselves with the oil-thirsty war monger.

You would lose this bet.

My understanding is that you're describing the CIE 1931 color space:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space#Color_vis...

You'll see it is based on the physics and human biology, and is the basis for everything else.

The thing is, this color space isn't very useful for color calculations in the perceptual/subjective sense (e.g. if I just want to change one characteristic, like luminosity, without affecting the chromaticity), so we have transformations to more useful spaces like XYZ, Lab, etc.

There's also the fact human vision is a subjective/psychological phenomenon, so only frequency response is not enough: our vision can map different frequency responses to the same perceptual color (metamerism), our vision adapts color perception based on light source, etc.


Thanks for the pointer.

EDIT Thanks again. This exactly like what I had in mind, in spirit at least.


I believe it would be interesting to compare to graduates / etc. in the same timeframe.


“Concerned” is an understatement. USA is already operating at nazi Germany levels and more than half of the civil society is approving. Not that it’s a surprise for global spectators though - it’s finally showing it’s true colors.


More than half is an exaggeration. Trump is not a popular president. With free and fair elections, a blue wave is more or less guaranteed


Creating a private militia, silencing dissent, declaring wars without congress vote… I don’t see how this is being allowed to happen without public approval, or at least, public apathy.


All the more reason for Trump to prevent any form of free and fair elections then.


We’re past the golden age of personal computing, the money isn’t there anymore. I’m afraid we’ll have to get used to bad software for a while.


Or, you know, use software developed by humans, for human consumption, aka community software, the stuff you generally associate with open source!


The author explicitly shows how in Apple's walled garden, even that had hurdles that have been put up, 'for security'.


That's reinforcing the author's point: the classic game already existed, users just wanted the same game with some maintenance updates - not a new game with new features.

In this case it was the producers (not the users) that were wrong in wanting to throw away something that already worked.

I believe his point isn't exactly about users not knowing what they want, but instead the tension between evolutionary design vs. "keep piling features".


>users just wanted the same game with some maintenance updates - not a new game with new features.

this is similar to the comment by treetalker, so i dont want to just copy/paste my reply to them, but focus on "add" vs. "remove" is sort of beside the point(s) i was trying to make.


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